Azam Tariq

Azam Tariq (10 July 1968-6 October 2003) was the leader of the Deobandi Muslim terrorist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan from 1990 to 2003, when he was assassinated.

Biography
Tariq was born in Chichawatni in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family, and he became a Deobandi (revivalist Sunni). After working at the Karachia madrassa Jamia Islamia, he associated with Haq Nawaz Jhangvi and took over the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan terrorist organization after Jhangvi's death. In 2001, President Pervez Musharraf banned the SSP, as Tariq had been known to kill Shiite Muslims.

In 2003, as he left the M2 Motorway to go to a Pakistani National Assembly meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tariq was assassinated by Shiite sectarians. At the first anniversary of his death, mourners were killed by a car bomb set by the same people: Mudasser Ali and Mohammad Ali.